vSphere Command-Line Interface
Concepts and Examples explains how to use the commands in the VMware
vSphere® Command‐Line Interface (vCLI) and includes command
overviews and examples.

Intended
Audience

This book is for experienced
Windows or Linux system administrators who are familiar with vSphere
administration tasks and data center operations and know how to use commands in
scripts.

VMware Technical
Publications Glossary

VMware Technical Publications
provides a glossary of terms that might be unfamiliar to you. For definitions
of terms as they are used in VMware technical documentation, go to
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.

Getting Started with vSphere
Command‐Line Interfaces includes information about available CLIs,
enabling the
ESXi Shell, as
well as installing and running vCLI and DCLI commands.

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vSphere Command‐Line Interface
Reference is a reference to both ESXCLI commands and
vicfg- commands. The
vicfg- command help is
generated from the POD available for each command, run
pod2html for any
vicfg- command to
generate individual HTML files interactively. The ESXCLI reference information
is generated from the ESXCLI help.

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DCLI Reference is a reference
to DCLI commands for managing vCenter services.

The documentation for PowerCLI
is available in the vSphere Documentation Center and on the PowerCLI
documentation page.

The vSphere SDK for Perl
documentation explains how you can use the vSphere SDK for Perl and related
utility applications to manage your vSphere environment.

The
vSphere Management
Assistant Guide explains how to install and use the vSphere Management
Assistant (vMA). vMA is a virtual machine that includes vCLI and other
prepackaged software.

Background information for the
tasks discussed in this book is available in the vSphere documentation set. The
vSphere documentation consists of the combined VMware
vCenter Server
and
ESXi
documentation.